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  Re: some special kind of glass (sorry, I don't know the english word for it...ground glass?);  
From: Wolfgang Illmeyer
Date: 26 Apr 2000 08:07:03
Message: <3906dbe7@news.povray.org>
erm... and what does this mean? Could you show me some scene-code?

Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
slr### [at] linuxparkerrfwicom...
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:30:49 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:
> >
> >I'd like to produce some kind of street lamp, but it has some special
kind
> >of glass (somebody said 'ground glass', but I'm still not sure, if it's
the
> >right name), I can't produce...
>
> 'round here, we call that frosted glass.  It's not that easy to get right
> in POV, but you can fake it with either media (tricky, and prone to
failure)
> or a very small normal pattern with heavy nonadaptive antialiasing.  Your
> render times will go through the roof, though.
>
> --
> Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
> These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
>


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